I replied to a friend just today, regarding my last hospital stay and felt I should include the same in here, so, here you go:
Sorry to not have answered the different requests for more info regarding my last dance with Kaiser Roseville...bleh.
To spare you a Pepto moment (or the necessary gouging of one's mind's eye), suffice it to say that sections of my intestines (entire large intestine particularly) became paralyzed and simply shut down (“went to sleep” according to ER docs) so life got to an unbearable state after about 12 – 15 days and I was taken by ambulance to the ER, released 10 hours later with very little progress and then 48 hours later admitted for 6 days while they medicated me while “we” waited for my system to “wake up”/un-paralyze. 48 hours after being released from my 6 day dance, I was back in the ER due to vicious withdrawals from the med they used to “make the pain bearable” and due to stopping another pain med that I’d been on for nearly 4 years…they SUCK at “dancing”, so to speak.
Hard to believe that THAT IS the abbreviated/edited version…
In fact, the blessing of my stay there was that my brother Kevin Kern came down from Sutter, cleared all his appointment-decks and stayed with me for 24 hrs to make sure I was cared for righteously and had an advocate there during some time where CC and my mom were unavailable or just in need of a break. Make NO mistake; Kevin is a man of his word AND His Word. :o) He’s my bro-
Paralysis can take numerous muscular forms and in this case besides my arms, legs, jaw, neck being hit, the muscles surrounding the intestines also took the hit, only they did not respond to the levels of potassium I took to bring my regular motor skills back around and we had no way to know, initially, that what was going on was HKPP related.
*sigh*
…but hey, I’m writing a little music here and there, as I have the strength and desire to be creative, so life could CERTAINLY be worse.
Swing batter, batter, batter…Swing!
:o)
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